Keywords: Milking
Item 102467
Milking time, Kingfield, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Kingfield Media: Lantern slide, hand colored
Item 16273
Woman milking cow, Sanford, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 63638
13 Milk Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Cyrus H. Farley Use: Store - Retail Glass
Item 63637
2-6 Milk Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: A.H. Bailey Confectionary Co. Use: Factory
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Exhibit
Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2
"Then they would multiply the amount of butter fat by the pounds of milk that could be made from that the farmers could determine how profitable they…"
Site Page
Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Agricultural Statistics of the Colony, 1870 to 1880
"… fowl - uncounted 1880 horses - 164 oxen - 92 milk cows - 283 cattle, other - 282 sheep - 530 pigs - 175 chickens - 1920 cheese - 1 ton butter - 7…"
Story
Shax and laxoox: tea with milk and Somali bread.
by Kheyro Jama
Lahooh (laxoox) is a food staple in East Africa, enjoyed for breakfast, lunch, or dinner
Story
Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila
Animal agriculture's ties to climate change
